There’s a “new” Rush CD available: RUSH – ABC 1974. Mine came this week.
It was recorded at the Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio in 1974 just a few weeks after Neil Peart joined them. It marks the point where WMMS FM broadcast the whole show, and the rest – as they say – is history.
There are two previously unreleased Rush tracks – Fancy Dancer and Garden Road – tracks from their first album and the then-unreleased Fly By Night, and a cover of Bad Boy (by Larry Williams).
There are also three bonus Fly By Night tracks from a 1975 set, also broadcast by WMMS.
The CD comes in a traditional plastic jewel case with a cardboard sleeve, and includes a foldout CD insert with a few details about the gig.
The full track list is as follows:
- Finding My Way
- The Best I Can
- Need Some Love
- In The End
- Fancy Dancer
- In The Mood
- Bad Boy
- Here Again
- Working Man
- Drum Solo
- What Youre Doing
- Garden Road
- Anthem (from the 2nd broadcast)
- Beneath, Between & Behind (from the 2nd broadcast)
- Fly By Night (from the 2nd broadcast)
Most Rush fans will have heard the stuff before, but this is a collectors’ item which marks the first legal/official release of the material.